Performing Arts
Kindred People: Monash University announces new Indigenous-led festival for 2026
New festival Kindred People aspires to ‘energetically encourage' the sharing of Indigenous knowledges.
Whitefella Yella Tree review: first contact and first love collide
The award-winning Whitefella Yella Tree returns to tell a heart wrenching and vital coming-of-age story.
Malacañang Made Us review: cancel culture meets martial law
Malacañang Made Us, presented by Queensland Theatre Company, shows how one act of resistance can ripple across generations.
Fly Girl review: girl power reaches soaring new heights
The little-known story of Deborah Lawrie, Australia’s first female commercial airline pilot, is presented with equal parts comedy and drama…
New performance venues in Melbourne and Brisbane
A revitalised indie theatre complex in Brisbane’s Petrie Terrace is one of several new performance venues.
The Colleano Heart review: a remarkable Aboriginal success story
Shapeshifting for decades to avoid detection as Aboriginal, The Colleano Heart follows a remarkable family of circus performers who won…
Banquet review: captivating circus tackles the big issues
This innovative performance uses circus arts to explore class themes, but who's invited to the banquet?
Fell review: Luke George’s performance leaves you hanging
Performed in a working saw mill, Luke George rivets audiences in a highly physical and poetic work for The Unconformity…
The Unconformity review: a festival that finds its own way
One of Australia's most remote arts festivals has no problem drawing audiences for its unique embedded, and genuine, program.
Arts students with disability faced harsh odds 40 years ago – what’s different now?
The Executive Director of one of our largest disability arts organisations, DADAA, identifies positive changes in tertiary arts training, but…